Frozen squirrel poop hints at sights and smells of Ice Age ecosystems
DNA preserved in ancient scat reveals what Yukon ground squirrels ate and what animals shared their world.
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DNA preserved in ancient scat reveals what Yukon ground squirrels ate and what animals shared their world.
During courtship, male scissor-tailed nightjars crack their wings together to make a sharp snapping sound. It’s the result of colliding arm bones.
Researchers cracked a 50-year-old math problem scribbled by Richard Feynman over lunch. The equations show that humans are better decision-makers than scientists once thought.
USDA has detected New World screwworm infections in Texas animals, marking the state’s first confirmed cases in decades.
The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.
AI could soon use more water than we need to drink, UN report finds.
A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost “protoplanet” that formed in the early solar system before being destroyed
A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time to look being
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first supersonic flight Friday, June 5, 2026, marking the first time the aircraft exceeded the speed of sound
The following has been adapted from The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI by Kevin Hartnett. Terry Tao
A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and magentas.
In a clinical trial, an experimental antibody reduced lean-mass loss in people on a GLP-1 drug. Whether that improves health is unclear.
After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the Andes evolved to have more copies of a key gene involved in digesting starch.
Live Science spoke with Dr. Ali S. Khan, an epidemiologist and former assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, about the ongoing Ebola